Smaller government benefits TN

The Tennessee Republicans' stand for small government is a just a parlor trick. It is a three-card monte game of words that they don't believe in and fail to uphold time and again. They use the term "small government" to grab votes from the right, while enacting laws that infringe on the rights of the people and circumvent local elected leaders.

Starting with education, big-government Republicans passed legislation to stop union representatives from negotiating for the teachers they represent. They then fined the city of Nashville for exercising its right to turn down a charter school over diversity concerns. Now, they are trying to pass a law to take the charter school decision out of the hands of locals and place it squarely in the hands of big government.

Now, the "guns in trunks" law is a direct assault on property owners' rights. If an owner does not want guns on their property, then big government will just have to step in.

The people of Tennessee should demand that our representatives work for a smaller government, a government that allows local, elected leaders the final say on local issues and allows property owners to have the final say on property uses.

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Smaller government benefits TN

The Tennessee Republicans? stand for small government is a just a parlor trick.